David Freedlander

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POWER MAD

Rich Little Doesn’t Just Impersonate Nixon. He Supports Him.

Rich Little’s latest stage performance posits that Richard Nixon’s Watergate culpability was zero, and that the shamed president resigned only for the good of the Republican Party.

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PAST PRESENT

Jessica McClure’s Mine Drama Returns, Right into Your Home

Phillip Santos Schaffer’s “Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play” uses the mine-fall drama that transfixed America to examine connection and empathy, with the audience in a starring role.

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OFF THE WALL

The Artists Who Blew Up the Whitney Biennial

Forensic Architecture’s research led to the resignation of Whitney board member Warren B. Kanders. The group’s founder, Eyal Weizman, reveals how they combine art and activism.

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Evidence

The All-Star Mueller Report Play Fails To Make Trump Tweet

John Lithgow played Trump, Kevin Kline played Robert Mueller, and Alyssa Milano played Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow. But the very starry ‘The Investigation’ told us nothing new.

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LOOK CLOSELY

There’s No Escaping Donald Trump at the Whitney Biennial

The 2019 Whitney Biennial is the first edition of the prestigious survey of contemporary American art of Donald Trump's presidency, and he is an unavoidable presence.

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Rich Little Doesn’t Just Impersonate Nixon. He Supports Him.

Jessica McClure’s Mine Drama Returns, Right into Your Home

The Artists Who Blew Up the Whitney Biennial

The All-Star Mueller Report Play Fails To Make Trump Tweet

There’s No Escaping Donald Trump at the Whitney Biennial

There’s a Lot of Art at Armory Week, and Even More Money

How To Turn ‘Frankenstein’ Into a Magical Puppet Show

Shakespeare Has Never Tasted So Delicious

You’ve Never Seen a Performance Like ‘Available Light’

The Revealing Ghosts of Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King